If you were giving advice about constructing the alternatives for multiple-choice questions, you should recommend all of the following, except:
a. Place numbers and dates in ascending order
b. Avoid placing the correct answer in the second position, as students often select B if they are unsure of the answer.
c. Use students’ misconceptions as the distractors.
d. Make all alternatives similar in length, as a single long answer alternative is likely to be identified as the correct one.
b. Avoid placing the correct answer in the second position, as students often select B if they are unsure of the answer.
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a. Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act or 2004 b. Regulations for IDEA-2004 c. No Child Left Behind Act d. Americans with Disabilities Act e. Head Start legislation
All of the following are popular misconceptions of Latino immigrant families who are Spanish-speaking EXCEPT
A. They are unwilling to learn English. B. They need to give up their language and culture in order to succeed in school and society. C. Adults are unfriendly and want to keep their distance from the mainstream community. D. Parents do not support their children's educational development. E. They often perform 3-D jobs (dirty, dangerous, and dead-end).
Which of the following would be the most valid assessment of reading?
a. Student reads a section from a chapter book and then tells what the section was about. b. Student reads a section of a chapter book and writes a summary of it. c. Student reads a section from a chapter book and then answers a series of multiple- choice questions that have been tried out with hundreds of other students. d. Student reads a section from a chapter book and then fills in missing blanks that were created by deleting words at random from the original text.
If you decided to design your classroom assessments so they were consistent with the research on learning styles, which of the following would you do?
a. Devote more time to test preparation. b. Use different assessment methods across all tests given during a grading period. c. Let students choose the assessment method they prefer. d. All of the above.